Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1930)

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508 AUGUST 1930 Fair Dealing and Character Exchange Your old still and movie cameras for the following new and exceptional values: Cine-Kodak Model K with /:1.9 Lens. Takes Black and White, Kodacolor and Telephoto Movies. Including case $150.00 Cine Kodak Model M. The lightest 100-foot amateur movie camera on the market. Including case $75.00 B&H Filmo 75. Without case, now $92.00 Cine Ansco /:3.5. Without case $100.00 An exceptionally large stock of used cameras and projectors always on hand. Inquiries will receive prompt and courteous attention. o^e CohcTL 's EXCHAN G E i20 FULTON St. NEW YORK Artistic Titles f( or Amateur Films A PRICE LIST AND ILLUSTRATED LEAFLET WILL BE SENT UPON REQUEST KODASCOPE EDITING & TITLING SERVICE, INC. 350 Madison Avenue New York, N. Y. kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk the cage. Take your dog and cat at play. Get horses working and racing. If you have a telephoto, film the birds. You might even go on a camera hunt and see how many wild birds you can shoot. It's just as much fun as using a gun and leaves your conscience freer and the birds happier. Continuity in animal pictures may be indicated by titling such as A Trip to the Zoo, Hunting With a Camera and so on. Then group your shots according to the animals' sizes, families or habitats. Don't shoot a tiger next to a sea gull or, rather, don't leave such shots in that order. Travel films are always interesting if thoughtfully made. Here the suggestion about taking pictures of motion should be carefully kept in mind and here you will need plenty of titles. You can provide many of them by taking short shots of dock signs, railroad station signs, street signs — anything that will indicate the scene following. Make sure you know what the subject of each scene is. Too frequently, especially when filming in foreign countries, we get interesting shots but when we arrive home are at a loss to identify them. We might know it was a certain park, cathedral or street but the question arises as to what is its name and why is it supposed to be interesting. Friends will certainly want to know, so be prepared to tell them in the body of a title. A nice way of keeping account of these shots is by means of the scene record books obtainable for the purpose. Each record card contains a number large enough to be photographed so it is only necessary to shoot a few inches of this number before taking the scene to be described thereon to positively index the scene for later editing and titling. In travel pictures, as in all others, you can achieve continuity. You have the start, the successive happenings or places visited and finally the home-coming. As mentioned before, however, continuity does not necessarily mean story in the usual sense. To remind you again, it usually means logical sequence. If you wanted to work continuity into a film of abstract motion, such as motion of machinery, you could do it in several ways. You might follow a certain product through the machines required in its manufacture. You might arrange your shots in such an order that each successive one showed greater rapidity of motion. You might even get an interesting picture out of ultra closeups of motion in the various machines by which the lady of the house does her work or has it done, photographing them in the order of use throughout the day. If you reach or have reached the point where you want to make photoplays acted by adults, continuity, roughly speaking, will mean story. And the question of where to get the story is sure to arise. First of all, you can write it yourself. Your success at this will, of course, depend somewhat on your imagination but, surely, anyone can turn out the straightforward type of scenario, as indicated above in discussing sport films. If you don't consider this type advanced enough, you can turn to the magazines where you will quite frequently, especially among the short stories, find something within the scope of your apparatus and prospective cast. Of course, you must remember that, if you make pictures from such adaptations, you cannot show these pictures for profit, even to charity benefits, unless permission is obtained from the copyright owners. However, you're probably in the movie game for pleasure rather than profit so this shouldn't worry you. The magazines failing you, there are always compilations of short stories, such as 0. Henry's works which, incidentally, offer a fertile hunting ground. Or, if you're a member of the Amateur Cinema League, you will find its photoplay department always ready to help you. To make photoplays, you will, of course, need a cast and probably a cast larger than can be chosen from your immediate family. Here's where your friends come in. This calls to mind the question, wouldn't it be fun to form a producing group, a movie club. If you broach the subject over the bridge tables some night, it may not appear to be well received. Some won't seem at all interested; others may laugh it off, thinking it impossible to do anything worth while ; still others may claim they can't act and one or two may "yes" you. It's quite possible that your suggestion will fall by the board. At the same time, underneath, your friends will probably be interested. Somewhere in most everyone's makeup there is the desire for self expression through acting. It's a hangover from childhood and only needs to be nursed a bit to bring it to the surface again. The League can also help you in this regard since simplified organization material is available to anyone asking for it. Amateur clubs (Continued from page 486) Summer contest ■ At Piainfieid, N. J., the last meeting of the Cinema Club before the summer recess was devoted to a discussion of a summer filming contest. A prize is offered for the best 100 foot film submitted. The latest addition to this club's newsreel, pictures of the community Easter egg-hunt, were screened at the meeting along with Fly Low Jack from the League Club Film Library.